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Bucer, follow St. Augustine. The Orientals and the non-Lutheran Protestants follow Philo, Josephus, and Origen.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

PROF. SKEAT queries when the Ten Com- mandments were first divided as at present. If he turns to the ' Antiquities l of Josephus iii. 5, 3, he will find that that author divides them as the Church of England does, and it is clear that he merely records the custom of his countrymen. A. D. T.

HEINE ON KANT (11 S. i. 247). Heine deduces a sort of parallel between Kant and Robespierre in his ' History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany. 1 I quote the follow- ing sentence from Prof. Tout, occurring in a sketch of Heine :

" Nothing can be more perversely brilliant and witty than his [Heine's] accounttof Kant abolish- ing God as Robespierre executed Louis XVI., and restoring a Deity as a postulate of the Practical Reason because of the dismal face of his old servant Lampe."

W. SCOTT.

Lampe was the name of Kant's servant, whom he had to dismiss, after an attendance during thirty years, on account of misconduct, in 1802. Nevertheless, Kant left to Lampe by his will a life annuity of 40 thaler (6L). Cf. ' Immanuel Kant's Biographic, 1 by F. W. Schubert (Leipsic, 1842), pp. 200-201. H. KREBS.

See C. G. Leland's translation (Heine- mann, 1892) of Heine's ' Germany, * vol. i. p. 151. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

[MR. M. L. R. BBESLAR'S longer reply has been forwarded to the querist.]

" BLUESTOCKING - l : ORIGIN OF THE TERM (11 S. i. 222). The following paragraph appeared in The Morning Herald and Daily Advertiser of 10 Dec., 1783 (p. 3, col. 2) :

"A division is said to have taken place among the Blue Stockings, owing to a dispute which arose

at Mrs. V y's [? Mrs. Vesey's] at their last

meeting, and would probably have been attended with serious consequences, but for the timely interposition of some unlettered auditors. Mrs.

M [? Mrs. Montagu] is said to be at the head

of the seceding party, which, we are informed, has already come to a resolution of instituting a club in opposition to the Blues."

The last of the clique is stated to have been Miss Monckton, afterwards Countess of Cork, who died in 1840. See further The Penny Post, 1 March, 1874 ; The Literary Gazette during 1842 ; and as to the Blue-Stocking Club of New York, The Queen, 6 June, 1868.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

Whatever may be the origin of the term " Bluestocking,"' it has been long under- stood to apply in days when men looked askance at the higher education of women, and thought it altogether out of place to those who pursued it in spite of the pre- judice and opposition it entailed. In view of the fact that this prejudice has largely broken down, and that women receive University degrees and reside in University colleges, the word seems to have lost its significance. Who was it that, in the days when opposition was at its height, summed up the question thus : " The stockings cannot be too blue if the petticoats are long enough to cover them " ? Was it not one of our Lord Chancellors ?

J. FOSTER PALMER.

[The saying is due, we think, to Jeffrey ; assigned to him, at any rate, in ' A Budget of Anecdotes.']

YULE LOG IN CORNWALL (11 S. i. 129, 255, 296). Washington Irving, in a note to his essay on ' Christmas Eve, 1 speaks of the burning of the Yule clog as not restricted to one part of England. He says :

" The Yule clog is still burnt in many farm- houses and kitchens in England, particularly in the North, and there are several superstitions connected with it among the peasantry. If a squinting person come to the house while it is burning, or a person barefooted, it is considered an ill omen. The brand remaining from the Yule clog is carefully put away to light the next year's Christmas fire."

W. B.

A strange belief anent the subject of the ashen faggot, which formerly existed in the West of England (whether elsewhere I cannot say), is that if the last fragment of the faggot, partly burnt, was placed in the stall, it would keep the cows from all harm or disaster. This is known to have been done within comparatively recent years in Somerset. H. W. KILLE.

1, Tasker Street, Walsall.

SPEAKER PELHAM (11 S. i. 227, 272). Henry Pelham may have been the nominee of George, seventh Earl of Rutland, who as Sir George Manners was knight of the shire for the county of Lincoln 1620, and member for Grantham 1603-14 and 1623-5. Sir George, who was the last of the eldest branch of the Manners family, succeeded his brother in the earldom in 1632, and died 1641, the year after Henry Pelham was first returned for Grantham. The note given below is appended to Henry Pelham' s